Prog Synch Listen: MM's Earth Band - As Above So Below

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A northern Indian friend has come around and just brought in some absolutely stunning homemade onion bhaji

yum yum





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O Lucky Man!

'he was, he was'





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I say northern Indian because I am used to Sri Lankan food which is more 'south Indian'.

The further south you go the hotter the curries are!




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I love this track!

Dave Flett is a very good guitarist - I sometimes forget he was with Thin Lizzy






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Not really a Lizzy aficionado - didn't know that.


Barbara Thompson adding a new sound to the mix, bubbling away. Gorgeous.

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That's the wonderful Barbara Thompson on saxophone - I know that

[Not sure about Mike Heron on back vox though!]




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Babs- SNAP

The wife of the great Jon Hiseman

What a fucquing phenomenon he was?





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Waiter - THIS ROCKS!!





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Go Manfred - GO!!





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Part of this song could be taken from a Strawbs album (I've been playing the classic run again this week).

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I must have seen them live half a dozen times between 1973 and 1977

Nightingales & Bombers is a corker too

[That and Solar Fire are my fave three]

You JJ?




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Go Manfred - GO!!





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Indeed!!

Again, more cowbell needed!!

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Part of this song could be taken from a Strawbs album (I've been playing the classic run again this week).

Nice - Witchwood to Ghosts....?





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40+ years ago I used to really freak out to this track

Idiot dancing I think we called it!




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The Chanter Sisters on backing vocals - they did a lot of that stuff but had soem of their own material that received a modicum of success





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Solar Fire first - a very early purchase, when my collection must have been below 30 albums & bought partly to celebrate my new speakers - made a change from Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Mayall & the Beatles.


Level pegging with Nightingales and this, plus a very honourable mention for Watch.

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Nice guitar

I find this a joyful album

Full of music

Full of fun





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Part of this song could be taken from a Strawbs album (I've been playing the classic run again this week).

Nice - Witchwood to Ghosts....?





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Just a Collection to Hero & Heroine.

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Nice guitar

I find this a joyful album

Full of music

Full of fun





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Yes - joyful is an apt adjective, full of music, variety and fun.

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Solar Fire first - a very early purchase, when my collection must have been below 30 albums & bought partly to celebrate my new speakers - made a change from Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Mayall & the Beatles.


Level pegging with Nightingales and this, plus a very honourable mention for Watch.

Yes JJ - Solar Fire might be my favourite too.

I need to go back to Watch - I struggled with it a bit....







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Solar Fire first - a very early purchase, when my collection must have been below 30 albums & bought partly to celebrate my new speakers - made a change from Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Mayall & the Beatles.


Level pegging with Nightingales and this, plus a very honourable mention for Watch.

Yes JJ - Solar Fire might be my favourite too.

I need to go back to Watch - I struggled with it a bit....







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And I need to try Dragonfly & Ghosts again.

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Part of this song could be taken from a Strawbs album (I've been playing the classic run again this week).

Nice - Witchwood to Ghosts....?





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Just a Collection to Hero & Heroine.

Yes - how silly of me to omit Antiques & Curios - that's probably my fave

[well it usually has been for the last 50 years!]

My mate John Winter bought it the day it came out and didn't like it so sold it to me (he did that a lot)

Sadly Johnny died of throat cancer in his early 40s at a time when I wasn't in contact with my old school mates [now I am]

A big regret I wasn't there....






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